State v. Beason

SILAK, Judge.

This case involves the commutation of a prison sentence. Bobby Lynn Beason asked the district court to enforce a court order from December, 1978, imposing a one-year sentence for escape. He argued that a subsequent commutation of his escape sentence to run concurrently with his underlying sentence was not legal. The district court concluded that the Commission of Pardons and Parole (the “Commission”) had authority to commute Beason’s sentence. We affirm.

The facts of this case are convoluted, and the record is inadequate. Bobby Lynn Beason was convicted of homicide. He was…